Denef–Lipshitz conjecture on integral Diophantine extensions

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Let LL be a number field. An extension L/KL/K is integrally diophantine if the ring of integers OK\mathcal{O}_K is a diophantine subset of OL\mathcal{O}_L, and a subset is diophantine when it is existentially definable by polynomial equations over the ambient ring. The Denef–Lipshitz conjecture asserts that

Denef–Lipshitz conjecture. For every number field LL, the extension

L/QL/\mathbb{Q}

is integrally diophantine; equivalently, Z=OQ\mathbb{Z}=\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{Q}} is a diophantine subset of OL\mathcal{O}_L.

This would imply a negative answer to Hilbert's tenth problem for the rings of integers of all number fields. The conjecture is attributed to Denef and Lipshitz and is unresolved in general.

References

Primary source

Katharina Müller and Anwesh Ray, “Hilbert's tenth problem for families of Z_p -extensions of imaginary quadratic fields”, arXiv:2406.01443 (2024).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2304.09742, arXiv:2302.04157, arXiv:2206.06296, arXiv:1909.01434.

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